In BC, if there was a group who where willing to work for free for any basic service (i.e. plumbing) school teachers and nurses would strike and the old plumbers would end up with a significant raise. Yesiree Bob, in the great white North, the money is in Unions, not software (closed or open source)
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Granted they've only ever done 2 minute long CG intros for their games, but Blizzards animation quality is almost unparraleled when it comes to game cinematics. If they ever got together and made an epic braveheart/gladiator style movie, entirely CG I think they could easily rival Pixar or Dreamworks. Not to mention bring the field to a more mature audience (even though everyone at college i know has seen shrek 2, monsters inc, finding nemo, etc.
Microsoft just wants to do what they did with the pocket PC, and the PC before it. Create an OS (or in this case a graphics API that will run on anything, provided anything is a Windows PC, or a XBox clone), allow anyone to develop hardware for it, and make money off of the software. Microsoft would probably garnish more profit selling a gaming OS and letting other people pick up the cost of hardware, then selling the hardware as well. Not to mention cheap clones would allow for quick market dominance.
do you think the x86 architecture would be this successful had IBM been teh sole distributer?
not to mention the pocket pc dominating in the pda market (my poor zaurus)
unfortunatly microsofts plan is a pretty sound one. The only thing i can't understand is, why on earth they'd use the 3do as inspiration...
i think there's a big diffrence between an education and going to school and being told 'insert slot a into slot b.' First and foremost, if the only raeson you are in school is too learn a trade then you are better off with a deploma from a technical institute or teaching yourself (though self taught and fast learner is on everyone elses resumee too).
At the college i attend, as with most, there is a certain amount of breadth one is expected to overcome, and one is encouraged to take classes that are varid and give one a deeper understanding of a broad range of material. It doesn't take 4+ years to learn to code and you can't get a CS degree by takign only computer science courses. what's more a degree doesn't guarantee you a job. Thus, i'm somewhat lead to believe that the university experience isn't simply a maens to an end (because this can be obtained far more easily through otehr avenues) but a chance to grow as a person (not just intelectually, university provides ample oppertunity for getting drunk to the point of stupidity or unexpected sexual encounters).
of course i'm just from canada where university is considerably cheaper then down in the US, so a person can go to university and enjoy it without simply using it as a stepping stone to money.
sorry, for some reason i was thinking of a cube with each side subdevided into a googol thick mesh (the most counter intuative thing normally but i've been working on meshing lately) so i was thinking of a googol ^ 3
i just hope i don't get taken to court for libel by defaming the word googol which, little did i know, is patented
not sure how you do it with a dolphin but self aware test is normally performed by marking a dot on the animals forhead then showing it's reflection
a selfaware animal will realise that the reflection is it and thus, notice it has a dot on it's forehead
not sure how you'd gage a dolphins self awarness
also, i assume this has more to do with an animals understanding of reflections not their inability to determine they exist (but psychologists think otherwise)
"It's not a toy. It makes real capcakes with a 40 watt bulb and little packages of icing. But the secret ingredient is Love...dammit" - Captain Murphey
The total number of particles in the universe is estimated between 10^72 and 10^87. A googol is 13 orders of magnituted higher then that. That means a googol is about 10 trillion times bigger then the numbers of particles in teh universe.
A googolhedron is 10^300 particles so it's 213 orders of magnitutde greater. Even if we raelise the univerese is 100 trillion times smaller then we thought, we're still not even covering a speck of what is needed. Big numbers are stupid that way.
Just some food for thought
CO2 is the primary green house gas that has been rasing. And it is in fact a major greenhouse gas. You see teh majority of greenhouse gases blanketing teh earth are infact O3 (Ozone) however a C02 molecule is much more effective (~200times as effective, can't link to my course notes unfortunatly) as Ozone at turning visible light into infrared (heat). Thus, a change in C02 levels can lead to tempreature change. Of course earth is a dynamic system and adjusts to chaneg, so the effects won't be that noticable until a critical level is reached and a cascading effect takes place (much like adding enough energy to a process to allow a reaction to occur).
as for fossil fuels in 1945, we have been burning coal far longer then that in far greater abundence. During the industrial age, europe experienced adverse climate conditions that many attribute to the blankets of fumes pouring out of the smoke stacks
also, we have looked at ice samples of teh past couple of hundred thousand years (far further then 15,000). what's more, one can determine the carbon levels of the atmosphere based on ratios of carbon isotopes in planets. this allows us to ascertain that the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere inthe past 300 million years where during the time of the dinosaurs, where (during teh triassic and cretaceous at least) they lived in an ice free world (no frozen poles) with considerably less land mass above water.
it is true that ice melting isn't new in the poles, after all the earth naturally shifts between warm and cold and we are currently on an up swing, with or with out our best efforts to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
i think it's safe to say we can ignore the possiblity of a warmer sun, seeing as our sun is in fact cooling. contrary to what i have just said, i'm not a doomsayer at all and i don't think that we will experience drammatic change in our life time but it is hard to despute the fact that, up until humanity, the biosphere has inadvertantly swen carbon into the soul, reducint C02 levels (animals and plants are made up of carbon, and then degrade). Humans are the first species to activly pump carbon back into the atmosphere. truth be told this might nto even be a bad thing, but it will most probably be bad for humans and, while we will keep on living (if we can live in saskatchawan, we can live anywhere), it won't be ideal by any means
actually, not entirely true
while it is true that the insect frame can only support it's self up to a certain size, this has, in the past, been much greater then insects now (dragonflys 1 - 2 ft. long during the time of the dinosaurs). it seems that in a warmer environment, with higher CO2 levls, insects can in fact grow.
of course, as you said, cockroaches haevn't evolved for a very long time and probably won't in the future because they fill their niche far to well and so don't really need to change
I think travel to mars could end poverty ... on mars
much like the Freedom Boat the cost of anyone living on mars when that eventuality occurs would be quite prohibative allowing only the richest to enter and ending homelessness.
Heck, given a couple of thousand years, earth could just be mars' lower east side
when something really big hits something else really fast it tends to break up just a bit if you notice, the moon has a lot of craters but no bolders sitting in the middle of them
Because why this happens is pretty simple Light is a wave if you add two peaks together you get a larger peak (sine wave + sine wave) if you add a pitt and a peak together, they cancel out (cos wave + sine wave) so the extra slits just cause the light to intefere with it's self AND to intensify it's self at other points the same experiment can be done wiht a plank of wood with slits in it and a bathtub you'll notice certain waves cancel themselves out and certain ones add together the parralel universe thing is a funny idea but the article was labled funny afterall
'This GPL brings good luck to all software developers who use it. One guy used GPL software and licensed it under seomthing else and was eaten by a despondent goat with rabbies. One girl forked GPL software and keeped the license and she met the man of her dreams later that day and had Opensource children (they released videos of the conseption on teh internet). Pass on your GPL software to 10 of your closest friends and receive a millioin years awesome luck'
in all seriousness though, GPL is a great thing and is an essential tool in preserving freedom of information. it also happens to be the most successful chain letter ever
Alaa seemed offended by the question assuming that there where a lack of females in the egyptian IT industry. Now why would any geeks assume that foreign women weren't predisposed to linux conventions what with the flourishing community of IT ladies in North America.
Napster became populer because people where getting something for free that they used to pay money for
and now they want to charge money for that service
not sure if anyone sees the flaw behind that
napster died, we mourned and all downloaded morpheus now there are more P2P and Torrent Programs then i can shake a stick at and some people decide that this is a viable market to enter into
granted, in the US they are cracking down on people with large mp3 archives but still, at 0.99 cents a track my hard drive is worth over $5k, not including all the movies and tv shows i also have. well that's my $0.02. probably should have saved it for the new britney spears song
All i know is that about the same time the laws where passed late night transit had been removed (though new night buses and increased service have since taken effect) but the number of people i know with 2 door sports cars (and no we aren't talking a porche, we're talking about a $1-5k mustang or rx-7 with 100 - 200 ks on it) essentially the only way people can go anywhere now is if they have 2 people to a car which means more drivers and more chances for accidents true enough there are less destractions in the car but that's not always the problem the exact number of young people who continue to drink and drive despite the graduated licensing program is astronomical after all with a full license you can only have 2-3 drinks in a 3 hour period (assuming average height male) yet people constantly disobey that. but getting caught for drinking and driving is afar lower risk then getting caught for too many people in a vehicle (more obvious from outside) but i guess what it boils down to is kids are going to drink (at least more then 1 in 2 of them) and they are going to need a way to get to location of drinking and this ruling more or less undermines a fairly successful Designated Driver initiative. all i know is that my younger brother just bought a fiero for $700 and if he takes his girlfriend out i would not be suprised if he ends up drinking anyway anyway that's my 2 cents only can wait to see if it means anything
Another question is does US value freedom and speech the same way they say they do
Canada has a charter of rights and freedoms (not a constitution, but similar) and the good ol' magna carta not to mention legalised gay marrige, medicinal marijunana, and no censorship on most of our mainstream television channels and radio
we do however limit the use of hand guns but that's okay because no one else has them anyway
recently freedom of speech in the US has been called into question in many cases. Up hear, Canada is moving in leaps and bounds in giving people freedom of choice provided no one gets hurt
umm... the thing about Canadian health care and unions is it's great in theory but between paying for everyone to send their kid with a cold to emergency, lack of nurses (apparantly US pays them more) and unions always stricking, health care isn't the canadian trump card it used to be
i use fluxbox it's not intuative doesn't even have icons and doesn't have built in file managers, flashy icons or anything will it win a war against windows no does my girlfriend know how to watch movies on my computer no do i care no but i like it and i'm glad that linux affords me the choice to use a desktop that i enjoy even if a correct solution for joe user hasn't quite been found yet
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In BC, if there was a group who where willing to work for free for any basic service (i.e. plumbing) school teachers and nurses would strike and the old plumbers would end up with a significant raise. Yesiree Bob, in the great white North, the money is in Unions, not software (closed or open source)
Granted they've only ever done 2 minute long CG intros for their games, but Blizzards animation quality is almost unparraleled when it comes to game cinematics. If they ever got together and made an epic braveheart/gladiator style movie, entirely CG I think they could easily rival Pixar or Dreamworks. Not to mention bring the field to a more mature audience (even though everyone at college i know has seen shrek 2, monsters inc, finding nemo, etc.
Of course, that's just my own personal dream...
And LimeWire/Kazaa mp3s are free...
afterall, i haven't heard of anyone in UK getting arrested for having mp3 libraries...
Microsoft just wants to do what they did with the pocket PC, and the PC before it. Create an OS (or in this case a graphics API that will run on anything, provided anything is a Windows PC, or a XBox clone), allow anyone to develop hardware for it, and make money off of the software. Microsoft would probably garnish more profit selling a gaming OS and letting other people pick up the cost of hardware, then selling the hardware as well. Not to mention cheap clones would allow for quick market dominance.
do you think the x86 architecture would be this successful had IBM been teh sole distributer?
not to mention the pocket pc dominating in the pda market (my poor zaurus)
unfortunatly microsofts plan is a pretty sound one. The only thing i can't understand is, why on earth they'd use the 3do as inspiration...
i think there's a big diffrence between an education and going to school and being told 'insert slot a into slot b.' First and foremost, if the only raeson you are in school is too learn a trade then you are better off with a deploma from a technical institute or teaching yourself (though self taught and fast learner is on everyone elses resumee too).
At the college i attend, as with most, there is a certain amount of breadth one is expected to overcome, and one is encouraged to take classes that are varid and give one a deeper understanding of a broad range of material. It doesn't take 4+ years to learn to code and you can't get a CS degree by takign only computer science courses. what's more a degree doesn't guarantee you a job. Thus, i'm somewhat lead to believe that the university experience isn't simply a maens to an end (because this can be obtained far more easily through otehr avenues) but a chance to grow as a person (not just intelectually, university provides ample oppertunity for getting drunk to the point of stupidity or unexpected sexual encounters).
of course i'm just from canada where university is considerably cheaper then down in the US, so a person can go to university and enjoy it without simply using it as a stepping stone to money.
Cosmology, you do makeup? Sorry, my roomate was an astronomy major, i had to use that (that's right he could tell fortunes).
sorry, for some reason i was thinking of a cube with each side subdevided into a googol thick mesh (the most counter intuative thing normally but i've been working on meshing lately) so i was thinking of a googol ^ 3
i just hope i don't get taken to court for libel by defaming the word googol which, little did i know, is patented
just as long as i can run cygwin in it then i'm happy
not sure how you do it with a dolphin but self aware test is normally performed by marking a dot on the animals forhead then showing it's reflection a selfaware animal will realise that the reflection is it and thus, notice it has a dot on it's forehead not sure how you'd gage a dolphins self awarness
also, i assume this has more to do with an animals understanding of reflections not their inability to determine they exist (but psychologists think otherwise)
"It's not a toy. It makes real capcakes with a 40 watt bulb and little packages of icing. But the secret ingredient is Love ...dammit" - Captain Murphey
The total number of particles in the universe is estimated between 10^72 and 10^87. A googol is 13 orders of magnituted higher then that. That means a googol is about 10 trillion times bigger then the numbers of particles in teh universe.
A googolhedron is 10^300 particles so it's 213 orders of magnitutde greater. Even if we raelise the univerese is 100 trillion times smaller then we thought, we're still not even covering a speck of what is needed. Big numbers are stupid that way.
Just some food for thought
CO2 is the primary green house gas that has been rasing. And it is in fact a major greenhouse gas. You see teh majority of greenhouse gases blanketing teh earth are infact O3 (Ozone) however a C02 molecule is much more effective (~200times as effective, can't link to my course notes unfortunatly) as Ozone at turning visible light into infrared (heat). Thus, a change in C02 levels can lead to tempreature change. Of course earth is a dynamic system and adjusts to chaneg, so the effects won't be that noticable until a critical level is reached and a cascading effect takes place (much like adding enough energy to a process to allow a reaction to occur).
as for fossil fuels in 1945, we have been burning coal far longer then that in far greater abundence. During the industrial age, europe experienced adverse climate conditions that many attribute to the blankets of fumes pouring out of the smoke stacks
also, we have looked at ice samples of teh past couple of hundred thousand years (far further then 15,000). what's more, one can determine the carbon levels of the atmosphere based on ratios of carbon isotopes in planets. this allows us to ascertain that the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere inthe past 300 million years where during the time of the dinosaurs, where (during teh triassic and cretaceous at least) they lived in an ice free world (no frozen poles) with considerably less land mass above water. it is true that ice melting isn't new in the poles, after all the earth naturally shifts between warm and cold and we are currently on an up swing, with or with out our best efforts to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. i think it's safe to say we can ignore the possiblity of a warmer sun, seeing as our sun is in fact cooling. contrary to what i have just said, i'm not a doomsayer at all and i don't think that we will experience drammatic change in our life time but it is hard to despute the fact that, up until humanity, the biosphere has inadvertantly swen carbon into the soul, reducint C02 levels (animals and plants are made up of carbon, and then degrade). Humans are the first species to activly pump carbon back into the atmosphere. truth be told this might nto even be a bad thing, but it will most probably be bad for humans and, while we will keep on living (if we can live in saskatchawan, we can live anywhere), it won't be ideal by any means
actually, not entirely true
while it is true that the insect frame can only support it's self up to a certain size, this has, in the past, been much greater then insects now (dragonflys 1 - 2 ft. long during the time of the dinosaurs). it seems that in a warmer environment, with higher CO2 levls, insects can in fact grow.
of course, as you said, cockroaches haevn't evolved for a very long time and probably won't in the future because they fill their niche far to well and so don't really need to change
Man, the safeway down the road must be really pissed...
I think travel to mars could end poverty
... on mars
much like the Freedom Boat the cost of anyone living on mars when that eventuality occurs would be quite prohibative allowing only the richest to enter and ending homelessness.
Heck, given a couple of thousand years, earth could just be mars' lower east side
when something really big hits something else really fast it tends to break up just a bit
if you notice, the moon has a lot of craters but no bolders sitting in the middle of them
Because why this happens is pretty simple
Light is a wave
if you add two peaks together you get a larger peak (sine wave + sine wave)
if you add a pitt and a peak together, they cancel out (cos wave + sine wave)
so the extra slits just cause the light to intefere with it's self AND to intensify it's self at other points
the same experiment can be done wiht a plank of wood with slits in it and a bathtub
you'll notice certain waves cancel themselves out and certain ones add together
the parralel universe thing is a funny idea but the article was labled funny afterall
up here in canada, we're switching to hex
'This GPL brings good luck to all software developers who use it. One guy used GPL software and licensed it under seomthing else and was eaten by a despondent goat with rabbies. One girl forked GPL software and keeped the license and she met the man of her dreams later that day and had Opensource children (they released videos of the conseption on teh internet). Pass on your GPL software to 10 of your closest friends and receive a millioin years awesome luck'
in all seriousness though, GPL is a great thing and is an essential tool in preserving freedom of information. it also happens to be the most successful chain letter ever
Alaa seemed offended by the question assuming that there where a lack of females in the egyptian IT industry. Now why would any geeks assume that foreign women weren't predisposed to linux conventions what with the flourishing community of IT ladies in North America.
Napster became populer because people where getting something for free that they used to pay money for
and now they want to charge money for that service
not sure if anyone sees the flaw behind that
napster died, we mourned and all downloaded morpheus
now there are more P2P and Torrent Programs then i can shake a stick at and some people decide that this is a viable market to enter into
granted, in the US they are cracking down on people with large mp3 archives but still, at 0.99 cents a track my hard drive is worth over $5k, not including all the movies and tv shows i also have.
well that's my $0.02. probably should have saved it for the new britney spears song
All i know is that about the same time the laws where passed late night transit had been removed
(though new night buses and increased service have since taken effect)
but the number of people i know with 2 door sports cars (and no we aren't talking a porche, we're talking about a $1-5k mustang or rx-7 with 100 - 200 ks on it)
essentially the only way people can go anywhere now is if they have 2 people to a car which means more drivers and more chances for accidents
true enough there are less destractions in the car but that's not always the problem
the exact number of young people who continue to drink and drive despite the graduated licensing program is astronomical
after all with a full license you can only have 2-3 drinks in a 3 hour period (assuming average height male) yet people constantly disobey that. but getting caught for drinking and driving is afar lower risk then getting caught for too many people in a vehicle (more obvious from outside)
but i guess what it boils down to is kids are going to drink (at least more then 1 in 2 of them) and they are going to need a way to get to location of drinking and this ruling more or less undermines a fairly successful Designated Driver initiative. all i know is that my younger brother just bought a fiero for $700 and if he takes his girlfriend out i would not be suprised if he ends up drinking anyway
anyway that's my 2 cents
only can wait to see if it means anything
Another question is does US value freedom and speech the same way they say they do
Canada has a charter of rights and freedoms (not a constitution, but similar) and the good ol' magna carta
not to mention legalised gay marrige, medicinal marijunana, and no censorship on most of our mainstream television channels and radio
we do however limit the use of hand guns but that's okay because no one else has them anyway
recently freedom of speech in the US has been called into question in many cases. Up hear, Canada is moving in leaps and bounds in giving people freedom of choice provided no one gets hurt
umm... the thing about Canadian health care and unions is it's great in theory
but between paying for everyone to send their kid with a cold to emergency, lack of nurses (apparantly US pays them more) and unions always stricking, health care isn't the canadian trump card it used to be
i use fluxbox
it's not intuative
doesn't even have icons
and doesn't have built in file managers, flashy icons or anything
will it win a war against windows
no
does my girlfriend know how to watch movies on my computer
no
do i care
no
but i like it and i'm glad that linux affords me the choice to use a desktop that i enjoy even if a correct solution for joe user hasn't quite been found yet