"The BBC are reporting on a system that can superimpose images over your vision using small lasers beaming the images directly onto the retina. This is already being used in the car manufacturing industry."
Eeeewww! Does anyone else squirm at the thought of lasers beaming directly into the retina?
It's true what they say, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a dictatorship where we get to choose the dictator every five years.
The EU constitution, presumably soon the Euro, identity cards... The government seems intent on its "progressive" schemes no matter what the public opposition.
A stack of car batteries, for example, just wouldn't be up to the job - the discharge/recharge cycle would break them (they don't like being more than 30% discharged). The water-hydrolisis thing sounds pretty cool.
By the way, people should RTFA, the hydrogen tank is quite far from the house.
"No one in their right mind would play poker like this against the richest man in the world. It is impossible to win because he will always out raise you."
We're going all-in!
The poker analogy is broken. You can play poker against the richest guy in the world. (Otherwise the richest guy at the table would always win & no-one would play). You can never be forced out of a pot for not being able to call the whole of a bet - you can play for whatever you have on the table, and any extra your opponent has bet is returned to him (or put in a side-pot). A better player could eventually break the richest guy in the world, as long as he didn't go broke.
Sadly, this is not the same as the current situation. There will be more challenges against the GPL, and the world will have to change to cope with it - source checking, insurance, etc.
SCO will go broke, but there will be other challenges. The community will have to protect itself, and that means paying. Thankfully, it is in many companies' interest to support free software, and their funds, lawyers and experience with IP issues will help the OSS community.
Well, of course BigInsureCo can reinsure LittleCo.
BigInsureCo spreads the risk by offering insurance to lots of small fry.
Say they have to pay out to SCO...shudder... no, forget that. Say they have to pay out to some other small company who took out insurance with them, well they're fine, cos they got free money for insuring against SCO's crap, and lots of other ventures.
The bigger an insurance company is, the more certain their profit becomes, as long as they can assess risks fairly well. Bigger sample, smaller variance. The only thing that has brought insurance companies down in recent years is insuring satellites that crashed.
Microsoft are like that car company (Ford???) who decided it was cheaper to compensate burn sufferers and the bereaved than fix the gaping flaw that made their fuel tanks tend to catch fire.
Microsoft can pay fines out of their petty cash, while perpetrating similar tricks over and over.
But... But... We have copyright laws. You could photocopy library books, return CD's you've copied to the store, download warez...
All right, you haven't stolen something from the owner in the same sense as if you'd burgled their house and taken the only copy, but in our society the law states that people who have created something copyable (like TV) can charge people to see it, and the encryption/satellite broadcast issue is just a technicality.
People who write GPL code, or put their novels out under creative commmons licenses, etc, are doing a great thing for their community, but remember they give away something they might otherwise legitimately charge for (and deny right to modify etc etc). Both systems work, and copyright has been around a lot longer.
I don't understand.
SCO, crappy dying company, takes millions-to-one shot on a huge payoff (or was praying for IBM to settle). Retarded but plausible.
But why would Microsoft want to back such a chancy scheme? Bad publicity when the case fails must more than make up for the FUD they've managed to spread.
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Huh? But if God can flood the planet, he can use miraculous water to do it, surely?
"The BBC are reporting on a system that can superimpose images over your vision using small lasers beaming the images directly onto the retina. This is already being used in the car manufacturing industry."
Eeeewww! Does anyone else squirm at the thought of lasers beaming directly into the retina?
Heheheh. Someone in UF described it as "C Shudder"
It's true what they say, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a dictatorship where we get to choose the dictator every five years.
The EU constitution, presumably soon the Euro, identity cards... The government seems intent on its "progressive" schemes no matter what the public opposition.
The source was Professional Engineering Magazine. Probably have the issue around somewhere.
But it's just another course trying to entice non-science students to do science. What's the point?
In UK universities in 2003, there were around 35,000 applications made to study Sports Science BSc. To study Materials Science, 37. Just thirty-seven.
Which do you think produces better scientists?
The guy who invented the first machine gun did so after a friend told him, "If you want to pile up gold, invent a killing machine."
Still works.
The best thing about 1GB email is that I'll never have to delete a message. Not that I'll search through them either.
:)
But the few precious seconds a day I spend highlighting mails, clicking 'delete' - all gone!
And when my gigabyte is filled with crap I'll just get another account
Decent batteries are very expensive.
A stack of car batteries, for example, just wouldn't be up to the job - the discharge/recharge cycle would break them (they don't like being more than 30% discharged). The water-hydrolisis thing sounds pretty cool.
By the way, people should RTFA, the hydrogen tank is quite far from the house.
"No one in their right mind would play poker like this against the richest man in the world. It is impossible to win because he will always out raise you."
We're going all-in!
The poker analogy is broken. You can play poker against the richest guy in the world. (Otherwise the richest guy at the table would always win & no-one would play). You can never be forced out of a pot for not being able to call the whole of a bet - you can play for whatever you have on the table, and any extra your opponent has bet is returned to him (or put in a side-pot). A better player could eventually break the richest guy in the world, as long as he didn't go broke.
Sadly, this is not the same as the current situation. There will be more challenges against the GPL, and the world will have to change to cope with it - source checking, insurance, etc.
SCO will go broke, but there will be other challenges. The community will have to protect itself, and that means paying. Thankfully, it is in many companies' interest to support free software, and their funds, lawyers and experience with IP issues will help the OSS community.
Well, of course BigInsureCo can reinsure LittleCo.
...shudder... no, forget that. Say they have to pay out to some other small company who took out insurance with them, well they're fine, cos they got free money for insuring against SCO's crap, and lots of other ventures.
BigInsureCo spreads the risk by offering insurance to lots of small fry.
Say they have to pay out to SCO
The bigger an insurance company is, the more certain their profit becomes, as long as they can assess risks fairly well. Bigger sample, smaller variance. The only thing that has brought insurance companies down in recent years is insuring satellites that crashed.
Microsoft are like that car company (Ford???) who decided it was cheaper to compensate burn sufferers and the bereaved than fix the gaping flaw that made their fuel tanks tend to catch fire.
Microsoft can pay fines out of their petty cash, while perpetrating similar tricks over and over.
C has a masssive codebase, and some real code wizards - we're talking people with 30 years experience. There are mature, free compilers avaiable.
Walter Bright's D is free as in beer but not speech, and there's only the one compiler. Do we really need another language that's a bit like C++?
Beacuse you can rely on implicit in return from main, or no return statement, but not both.
For undefined behaviour, the compiler is quite entitled to change your output, or do anything.
My little brother shows all the signs of humanity... just about.
But... But... We have copyright laws. You could photocopy library books, return CD's you've copied to the store, download warez...
All right, you haven't stolen something from the owner in the same sense as if you'd burgled their house and taken the only copy, but in our society the law states that people who have created something copyable (like TV) can charge people to see it, and the encryption/satellite broadcast issue is just a technicality.
People who write GPL code, or put their novels out under creative commmons licenses, etc, are doing a great thing for their community, but remember they give away something they might otherwise legitimately charge for (and deny right to modify etc etc). Both systems work, and copyright has been around a lot longer.
Serious question from someone for whom Amigas were games machines as a kid.
Who uses amigas nowadays? People nostalgically playing old games? Is it kick-ass for music or something?
Is AmigaOS designed for modern hardware, and can you do everything with it that you can with other systems?
I see there are a few similar questioning posts. Everyone seems to be like, "Oh, cool, but why..?"
So... this merger... Is it good? Or is it ..?
Not trying to troll, can someone please explain the significance of this news?
Might as well try for fp.
But is this an issue? Does anyone actually read books on screen?
Paper all the way for me.
I don't really care about this being fake - it's so cool.
Surely 'News for nerds' should include "Check this out, it's cool." Good hoax, well-executed. Thank you Mini.
I don't understand. SCO, crappy dying company, takes millions-to-one shot on a huge payoff (or was praying for IBM to settle). Retarded but plausible. But why would Microsoft want to back such a chancy scheme? Bad publicity when the case fails must more than make up for the FUD they've managed to spread.
I think you'll find this works in most C++ compilers:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf ("Hello world!");
}
Someone go patent .txt files!