Because MS never ever does anything illegally. I mean they're currenly ignoring the legal sanctions in Europe and simply paying the fines, at least last time I read a story about it. Isn't it worth a few million in fines to MS to kill google?
Why would it get "pummeled into the ground"? Legally? They're MS! And users would love it (magically there are no more banner ads, yay!) I know I certainly am attached to the adblocker plug-in for firefox, I wouldn't surf without it. I hear Opera has content blocking built in as well? Are they being "pummeled into the ground"?
And all this money comes from adwords? Does it bother anyone besides me that google has only one source of revenue? It's like a company that sells only one product... if demand for their product decreases the company dies. For example consider this possible situation: Microsoft bundles an adblocker with IE, automatically turned on, that blocks, among other things, google's adwords. Even if google sues MS could keep it in court long enough for google to go under. Scary isn't it?
I'm not going to mention the GIMP/photoshop comparison, but I have personal experiance with inkscape/illustrator, and I found that inkscape doesn't even come close to illustrator. I actually started with inkscape, but when I needed to rotate a bitmap I had pasted in, and found that I could only rotate to 90 degree angles I looked for another solution. Illustrator also has features such as the ability to rotate surfaces in 3d within the image that I came to find invaluable.
Judging by the number of responses so far I guess that asking about gold excreting bacteria is like asking about chocolate covered hubcaps. (that's a Larry Niven reference for those of you who are confused)
ha ha ha! Would you like me to give you a lecture about distance in Minkowskian geometry? Or perhaps a quick introduction to Riemann manifolds? Take a class... you make me smile, I have been to way too many classes as it is.
I didn't say you could do it with a single clock. And it's "frame of reference" not "space and time" there are many frames of reference, and only one space-time.
Relativity doesn't make clocks less useful, in fact it makes them more useful (because you can use them to figure out how fast you are going as well). And assuming that the clock remains under constant acceleration there is no reason to believe that relativity would make it less accurate.
Um, I guess it as somewhat informative (if you didn't you about IPv6 already, if you didn't you should leave/. right now). I don't see how it was funny though. Am I missing something obvious?
That wasn't a typo, I describe any license where the customer has to jump through hoops to actually use the stuff they bought as anal. Feel free to suggest a better word.
The usefulness of this service really depends on the licensing. If you can do whatever you want with them then I could see some cool 60 minute techno remixes (OK, they wouldn't really be cool, but at least someone might find the clips useful). However if they are licensed anally (as I suspect they will be) then this service is useless. Not surprisingly the article doesn't say.
Oh we had the technology to verify the theory long ago (the atom bomb was one such verification of E=mc^2, the slower decay of fast moving particles is a verification of time dilation, the bending of light arround the sun observable during an eclipse is a verification of the curvature of space time, and the explanation of Mercury's orbit is a verfication of E=mc^2 in the other direction), this is simply an additional check.
The emphasis on fast devlopment is justified, at least from a business perspective, because first to market gives a huge advantage in software, not to mention the network effect. Sure the ability to maintain and upgrade software is somewhat important, but it doesn't matter so much if it takes a long time if you are already dominating the market. Similiarily start-ups don't care about these issues since they plan on being bought out before they matter. Yes these attitudes create serious problems and lead to poorly made software, but what can you do about it? (besides using open source)
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When YouTube revives Firefly maybe then I'll have some respect for it. You hear me YoutTube? Sitcoms don't cut it, we need our Firefly!
Because MS never ever does anything illegally. I mean they're currenly ignoring the legal sanctions in Europe and simply paying the fines, at least last time I read a story about it. Isn't it worth a few million in fines to MS to kill google?
Why would it get "pummeled into the ground"? Legally? They're MS! And users would love it (magically there are no more banner ads, yay!) I know I certainly am attached to the adblocker plug-in for firefox, I wouldn't surf without it. I hear Opera has content blocking built in as well? Are they being "pummeled into the ground"?
Oops, I forgot: Microsoft isn't evil anymore. I guess the folks at Google can sleep safely.
That is why before that were the words: "imagine this possible situation". Were you reading every other sentance?
And all this money comes from adwords? Does it bother anyone besides me that google has only one source of revenue? It's like a company that sells only one product ... if demand for their product decreases the company dies. For example consider this possible situation: Microsoft bundles an adblocker with IE, automatically turned on, that blocks, among other things, google's adwords. Even if google sues MS could keep it in court long enough for google to go under. Scary isn't it?
Why is it that the people with the most money have the least taste?
Although that summary contained many lovely methaphors and similies it was strangely empty of actual content. How odd.
That may very well be the world's smallest achievement.
I did go to object transform, and on my version it ignored angles besides 90 degrees on pasted in bitmap images.
Well iPods don't breed, so they couldn't have evolved. They might be a complicated by product of another animal however ... an animal such as humans.
I'm not going to mention the GIMP/photoshop comparison, but I have personal experiance with inkscape/illustrator, and I found that inkscape doesn't even come close to illustrator. I actually started with inkscape, but when I needed to rotate a bitmap I had pasted in, and found that I could only rotate to 90 degree angles I looked for another solution. Illustrator also has features such as the ability to rotate surfaces in 3d within the image that I came to find invaluable.
wow I totally meant to write manhole cover, but I wrote hubcap instead. I wonder what that means?
Judging by the number of responses so far I guess that asking about gold excreting bacteria is like asking about chocolate covered hubcaps. (that's a Larry Niven reference for those of you who are confused)
ha ha ha! Would you like me to give you a lecture about distance in Minkowskian geometry? Or perhaps a quick introduction to Riemann manifolds? Take a class ... you make me smile, I have been to way too many classes as it is.
I didn't say you could do it with a single clock. And it's "frame of reference" not "space and time" there are many frames of reference, and only one space-time.
Relativity doesn't make clocks less useful, in fact it makes them more useful (because you can use them to figure out how fast you are going as well). And assuming that the clock remains under constant acceleration there is no reason to believe that relativity would make it less accurate.
I guess animaniacs was before your time.
Good Idea: asking a lawyer for legal advice /. for legal advice
Bad Idea: asking
That should be: "if you didn't *know* about IPv6 already", but I guess thats par for the course as far as comment quality goes.
Um, I guess it as somewhat informative (if you didn't you about IPv6 already, if you didn't you should leave /. right now). I don't see how it was funny though. Am I missing something obvious?
That wasn't a typo, I describe any license where the customer has to jump through hoops to actually use the stuff they bought as anal. Feel free to suggest a better word.
The usefulness of this service really depends on the licensing. If you can do whatever you want with them then I could see some cool 60 minute techno remixes (OK, they wouldn't really be cool, but at least someone might find the clips useful). However if they are licensed anally (as I suspect they will be) then this service is useless. Not surprisingly the article doesn't say.
Oh we had the technology to verify the theory long ago (the atom bomb was one such verification of E=mc^2, the slower decay of fast moving particles is a verification of time dilation, the bending of light arround the sun observable during an eclipse is a verification of the curvature of space time, and the explanation of Mercury's orbit is a verfication of E=mc^2 in the other direction), this is simply an additional check.
The emphasis on fast devlopment is justified, at least from a business perspective, because first to market gives a huge advantage in software, not to mention the network effect. Sure the ability to maintain and upgrade software is somewhat important, but it doesn't matter so much if it takes a long time if you are already dominating the market. Similiarily start-ups don't care about these issues since they plan on being bought out before they matter. Yes these attitudes create serious problems and lead to poorly made software, but what can you do about it? (besides using open source)