So basically, the longer we wait before launching probes, the faster they'll go... What I wanted to know was if we had already reached the point where technology advances faster than what it will enable us to do. This is a bit like the performance competition in the microprocessor market, waiting a year to build a computer makes it possible to solve a complicated problem in 6 months instead of two years.
I wonder if we'll ever see space technology advance enough so that, one day, we might be able to send a spacecraft past Voyager. Maybe we'll have some form of near-light-speed travel, or even faster-than-light travel, and manage to reach other stellar systems before Voyager does ?
In any case, I'll be more than satisfied if we establish a colony on Mars, tag me a conservative if you will, but I don't feel like leaving good old Sol just yet.
Very interesting, but somehow I don't think that Microsoft will try to compete with Apple on Macintoshes. Windows XP or Longhorn for Macs, even with.NET apps, would be too much a burden for them, and the Mac-community could react very strangely to this.
several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS. Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform 1) Move your business to IIS 2) See your company crumbling to its death 3) End of profits!
Well, you buy an XBox2 and try that. I'll probably have settled definitely on Mars before you succeed. Steve Jobs does not tolerate Mac clones. And Apple still has the ultimate say on OS X's source code, it's not Linux you're talking about.
Could you imagine if Microsoft enjoys the PowerPC platform so much that they end up porting Windows to the [...] PowerPC platform? Please read this slowly and carefully: NOT. HAPPENING.
Now a bit of history: in the 90s IBM convinced Microsoft to port Windows to the PowerPC, in order to make their PPC workstations more attractive to the corporate IS market. It was a failure because very few software vendors ported their apps over. What makes you think they would, now ? Besides, IBM has Linux now. It's only a matter of time before they stop "recommending" WindowsNT on their x86-based products.
Another thing to note: IBM would NOT build and sell the hardware for the XBox2. The most they'll do is provide a custom PPC, should it be a PPC 970/980 or a PPC 750GX variant.
Unfortunately Apple already tried to get in the videogame console market, with the Pippin, which was a monumental failure. Steve Jobs is not likely to send Apple this way again anytime soon.
The Gamecube has a 486MHz PPC 750CX/e, which is 32bits, has limited front side bus bandwidth and 256K L2 on-die cache. The XBox2 will likely use a variant of the PPC 970 or 980, which are 64bits, have plentiful bandwidth and 512K on-die L2 cache, plus an altivec unit, and run around 2GHz.
I have been doing this with my 1999 iMac DV for some time now. Airport card + iTunes 4 + 45 GB HD holding all my music, it also doubles as a filesharing server, WiFi router, and webserver (and many more uncommon usages, too). For a total price of half the $2800 of the Yamaha gizmo.
I agree, though, that my music is digitalized as 192 kbps MP3, not PCM.
I hear that microwaving does not kill RFID tags. Anyone knows of an efficient way to clean something of its RFID tags ? Do EMPs work ? Or would I have to physically mangle them ?
For now, "recumbent bikes" can go up to 110 kmph (= 68 mph), or up to 100 kmph (= 62 mph) over an hour, and the longest distance travelled by a muscular-power aircraft is 109 km (= 67 miles).
I'm really glad to see that at least one country has a standing precedent on EULAs. In most other countries EULAs are still a fuzzy issue, with no law or precedent telling exactly how much or how little legal value they have.
I am strongly considering moving to Holland in the near future.
The parallel to slavery and personal priviledges is very interesting. But I'd like to correct just one thing:
you open the box, you open the envelope, you install the software, click on the box and BANG! according to the law, you've agreed to conditions that would have to be insane to agree to under any other circumstances.
I don't think EULAs hold any legality whatsoever, at least in my country. The only laws and right restrictions that can be legally enforced on a user installing software are the laws that regulate sales, and all written contracts signed by said user. Nowhere does the EULA fits into this, except in the case of most site-licenses, where there is a written, signed agreement.
This means that companies that rely on EULAs to restrict rights are standing in a legal limbo. The only enforceable parts of EULAs are the clauses that grant the user additional rights. For example, the GPL is a "legally-valid" license in my country: it is a paper "signed" by the copyright holder, that states (s)he won't sue you if you copy and redistribute or modify the software if you abide to some conditions. It is only legally-binding the author, not the user. If the user does not comply to the restrictions, then (s)he violates the copyright laws, not the GPL. This makes a World of Difference(TM) with most other EULAs. A copyright holder cannot sue you if you exercise your rights as stated by Law, even if the "agreement"
I think it is Oracle whose EULA states that even if you are granted the right by law to reverse-engineer the software (this is the case in my country), you lose this right anyway. Utter Nonsense. Laws precede contracts. Especially non-written, non-signed "agreements".
Your bringing Monsanto here is very relevant. By (ab)using patents and license agreements they are trying to legally justify sale revenues that they DO NOT have a right to. All their fallacious reasoning lies on the false idea that, somehow, they are entitled by law to these revenues.
They are not. Just because farmers planting the seeds reduces their income does not make it illegal. And thus the law should NOT make it illegal in any way. And this is applicable to the RIAA/MPAA as well as Stots Corporation : they should not be able to claim to be entitled to what they falsely consider "lost revenues". It is not lost, it is fair use.
You pay for a material object, you own it. That's what most average people still think when they buy a CD. In the case of these woodworking tools, a judge would simply laugh the issue out if the company tried to enforce its license. I could write on my door that you owe me five bucks whenever you come into my house, that does not mean I can extort the money out of visitors, even though it's MY door.
Besides, contrary to what Stots claims, most distributed software today comes with a license that explicitly permit redistribution and copying.
Oh, err, anyone tried to buy something with money wrapped in a "license agreement" that stipulates the money's still yours ? That would be a fit payment for Stots.
I have a feeling this whole thing could end up bigger than the WaterGate. My interest, if it does, is that I will then be able to impress my great-grandchildren saying "I was one of the people who defended democracy in the US back then".
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So basically, the longer we wait before launching probes, the faster they'll go... What I wanted to know was if we had already reached the point where technology advances faster than what it will enable us to do. This is a bit like the performance competition in the microprocessor market, waiting a year to build a computer makes it possible to solve a complicated problem in 6 months instead of two years.
Since 'helios', in heliopause, means the sun, shouldn't this mood changing phenomenon actually affect the sun, and not the space probe ?
Maybe that's the reasons for all those solar flares lately...
I wonder if we'll ever see space technology advance enough so that, one day, we might be able to send a spacecraft past Voyager. Maybe we'll have some form of near-light-speed travel, or even faster-than-light travel, and manage to reach other stellar systems before Voyager does ?
In any case, I'll be more than satisfied if we establish a colony on Mars, tag me a conservative if you will, but I don't feel like leaving good old Sol just yet.
I can already foresee kiddies boasting their pricetags in muddy IRC channels. You're not 1337 if your 'tag isn't 7 digits.
L0rD 0f [)4rkn355: Ha ! My tag is $600,000 ! 0wned !!111!
R00lzD00dz: fsck you biatch mine is a million
L0rD 0f [)4rkn355: A m1ll10n rupi3z yeah
Infrasound weapons anyone ?
Very interesting, but somehow I don't think that Microsoft will try to compete with Apple on Macintoshes. Windows XP or Longhorn for Macs, even with .NET apps, would be too much a burden for them, and the Mac-community could react very strangely to this.
several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS. Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform
1) Move your business to IIS
2) See your company crumbling to its death
3) End of profits!
Applacco: An applacco a day keeps the cigarette away !
Cabbageacco: There's now a way to make your kids WANT to eat their cabbage soup.
Carrotabacco: It's not a problem if you overcook them !
Yeah, but will its games be able to run in a virtualized environment on my G5 ?
I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!
Since the XBox1 was (also) test grounds for future Trusted architectures, and more or less failed, parent is most probably right on target here.
Well, you buy an XBox2 and try that. I'll probably have settled definitely on Mars before you succeed. Steve Jobs does not tolerate Mac clones. And Apple still has the ultimate say on OS X's source code, it's not Linux you're talking about.
Could you imagine if Microsoft enjoys the PowerPC platform so much that they end up porting Windows to the [...] PowerPC platform?
Please read this slowly and carefully:
NOT.
HAPPENING.
Now a bit of history: in the 90s IBM convinced Microsoft to port Windows to the PowerPC, in order to make their PPC workstations more attractive to the corporate IS market. It was a failure because very few software vendors ported their apps over. What makes you think they would, now ? Besides, IBM has Linux now. It's only a matter of time before they stop "recommending" WindowsNT on their x86-based products.
Another thing to note: IBM would NOT build and sell the hardware for the XBox2. The most they'll do is provide a custom PPC, should it be a PPC 970/980 or a PPC 750GX variant.
You probably want to speak with Apple, instead.
Unfortunately Apple already tried to get in the videogame console market, with the Pippin, which was a monumental failure. Steve Jobs is not likely to send Apple this way again anytime soon.
The Gamecube has a 486MHz PPC 750CX/e, which is 32bits, has limited front side bus bandwidth and 256K L2 on-die cache. The XBox2 will likely use a variant of the PPC 970 or 980, which are 64bits, have plentiful bandwidth and 512K on-die L2 cache, plus an altivec unit, and run around 2GHz.
Of course it'll be better.
Did you retry doing this with iTunes instead of Winamp ? You get the added benefit of RendezVous autoconfiguration for the server and clients.
I have been doing this with my 1999 iMac DV for some time now. Airport card + iTunes 4 + 45 GB HD holding all my music, it also doubles as a filesharing server, WiFi router, and webserver (and many more uncommon usages, too). For a total price of half the $2800 of the Yamaha gizmo.
I agree, though, that my music is digitalized as 192 kbps MP3, not PCM.
Never mind, everything is here.
A great idea indeed, because, you know, kids never do try to beat surveillance, ever.
/. never had to manage a group of kids.
It's obvious some people here on
I hear that microwaving does not kill RFID tags. Anyone knows of an efficient way to clean something of its RFID tags ? Do EMPs work ? Or would I have to physically mangle them ?
The International Human Powered Vehicles Association has other interesting tidbits like this.
For now, "recumbent bikes" can go up to 110 kmph (= 68 mph), or up to 100 kmph (= 62 mph) over an hour, and the longest distance travelled by a muscular-power aircraft is 109 km (= 67 miles).
And yes, there is valuable intellectual property in sesame seed genetics.
It's not property, it's a temporary loan from the Public Domain. Too bad most people (especially Disney) tend to forget this.
I'm really glad to see that at least one country has a standing precedent on EULAs. In most other countries EULAs are still a fuzzy issue, with no law or precedent telling exactly how much or how little legal value they have.
I am strongly considering moving to Holland in the near future.
The parallel to slavery and personal priviledges is very interesting. But I'd like to correct just one thing:
you open the box, you open the envelope, you install the software, click on the box and BANG! according to the law, you've agreed to conditions that would have to be insane to agree to under any other circumstances.
I don't think EULAs hold any legality whatsoever, at least in my country. The only laws and right restrictions that can be legally enforced on a user installing software are the laws that regulate sales, and all written contracts signed by said user. Nowhere does the EULA fits into this, except in the case of most site-licenses, where there is a written, signed agreement.
This means that companies that rely on EULAs to restrict rights are standing in a legal limbo. The only enforceable parts of EULAs are the clauses that grant the user additional rights. For example, the GPL is a "legally-valid" license in my country: it is a paper "signed" by the copyright holder, that states (s)he won't sue you if you copy and redistribute or modify the software if you abide to some conditions. It is only legally-binding the author, not the user. If the user does not comply to the restrictions, then (s)he violates the copyright laws, not the GPL. This makes a World of Difference(TM) with most other EULAs. A copyright holder cannot sue you if you exercise your rights as stated by Law, even if the "agreement"
I think it is Oracle whose EULA states that even if you are granted the right by law to reverse-engineer the software (this is the case in my country), you lose this right anyway. Utter Nonsense. Laws precede contracts. Especially non-written, non-signed "agreements".
Your bringing Monsanto here is very relevant. By (ab)using patents and license agreements they are trying to legally justify sale revenues that they DO NOT have a right to. All their fallacious reasoning lies on the false idea that, somehow, they are entitled by law to these revenues.
They are not. Just because farmers planting the seeds reduces their income does not make it illegal. And thus the law should NOT make it illegal in any way. And this is applicable to the RIAA/MPAA as well as Stots Corporation : they should not be able to claim to be entitled to what they falsely consider "lost revenues". It is not lost, it is fair use.
You pay for a material object, you own it. That's what most average people still think when they buy a CD. In the case of these woodworking tools, a judge would simply laugh the issue out if the company tried to enforce its license. I could write on my door that you owe me five bucks whenever you come into my house, that does not mean I can extort the money out of visitors, even though it's MY door.
Besides, contrary to what Stots claims, most distributed software today comes with a license that explicitly permit redistribution and copying.
Oh, err, anyone tried to buy something with money wrapped in a "license agreement" that stipulates the money's still yours ? That would be a fit payment for Stots.
I have a feeling this whole thing could end up bigger than the WaterGate. My interest, if it does, is that I will then be able to impress my great-grandchildren saying "I was one of the people who defended democracy in the US back then".