So what happens when it gets close to another star? If the Sun will push it now, the next star will push it too I would assume - but which way? The sail could go backwards, wrap around what its pulling, and then due to momentum you have a giant missle.
I saw it at 12:05am. The downloadable version is probably very crappy quality, especially the sound. See it in theaters - simply amazing! You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
At the risk of losing karma, what an obvious statement!! Pi is a mathematical number used to calculate certain things such as circumference OF COURSE ITS NOT RANDOM, if it was then we wouldn't be using it for so many important functions
"but you'd better hope I don't get to the Twinkies aisle before you."
To bad for you...I work at a convenience store and already have the twinkies i want:)
Re:"Paltry" is probably a poor choice of words
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"We've been using GCC 4 internally since the winter of 2003."
GCC 4 was just finished you jackass. Apple (not you, its very easy to tell you are just some idiot wanting karma) therefore could not have been using it internally since 2003.
Grow up, get a job, then die a <dare I say> peaceful </dare>death.
I think everyone mistook this. They are not saying video drivers mean nothing, they are just saying that more focus should be payed to the core parts of the kernel. They are saying that more focus needs to be on stabillity and speed, not that no one should develop drivers for video, sound, etc.
If linux becomes a kernel with a bunch of media/video added, and less attention to the main parts, it will suck. Without the media/video, it will suck. We need both parts.
"Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained..."
Why in the hell would you waste your time finding and possibly paying someone for such common sense? Maybe you have it set to play based on ratings which can be set in iTunes, dunno, but seriously use your head.
"I wonder if you can run a regular random number generator on your PC and get the same results?"
The typical random number generator on a computer takes a number (for example the current tick on the clock) and messes around with it mathematically to generate a "random" number. It then uses that as the next seed. So once you set your initial seed, everything is entirely reproducable.
Here is a typical implimentation of a "random" number generator on the computer:
static unsigned long next = 1; int myrand(void)/* RAND_MAX assumed to be 32767. */ { next = next * 1103515245 + 12345; return((unsigned)(next/65536) % 32768); } void mysrand(unsigned seed) { next = seed; }
"Without a connection to the internet, what good will this actually bring?"
When I had my first computer, I didn't have the internet or use a BBS (though the internet was around). I wasn't ripping off companies for software and music, I actually went out and bought software, something many people seem to have forgotten stores carry. I still played games, wrote papers, etc. Computers have a purpose even when there is no internet.
For the people who really want to use good programs (such as the BSDs or linux and the applications run on them), if an ISP won't let us connect we just need to take a TC and set it up as a router and connect our real computer to it. TC won't stop anyone who actually cares not to use it IMHO.
Plus the idea that it will only run programs allowed to be run will kill off developers and only leave coorporations willing to spend the extra money to get a license. It will once again fail.
The RedHat 8 emulation has been around for a long time in FreeBSD, it has just been updated. I'm not positive why its only version 8, but I'm guessing its because most applications that will work on today's distibutions probably work on RedHat 8 (with minor updates such as glibc).
I've been here for about two years, the first time I actually saw this joke was when it said In Soviet Russia car drives you, which is a line from Family Guy. I just assumed someone thought it was funny and kept going with it
Where does this crap come from? Appple marketing?
You clearly haven't used OS X
Open standards are being embraced just about everywhere you turn in OS X
Like DRM in Ipod?
Like quicktime codecs?
Does the phrase "just about" mean anything to you? We have Darwin (the kernel plus more), the compiler used in XCode is gcc, it includes tons of examples, and some of them are even programs included with OS X. Many developers for OS X open source. Just because Apple hasn't open sourced everything, such as the parts of OS X like Quartz, Aqua, etc that help bring in a profit so it can't be copied exactly, means they care about money which every company does.
The numbers of Macs involved in secure and classified work in the Federal government have been exploding
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So what happens when it gets close to another star? If the Sun will push it now, the next star will push it too I would assume - but which way? The sail could go backwards, wrap around what its pulling, and then due to momentum you have a giant missle.
So who will be the first to break free of our new found Matrix?
I don't think feeding this monster cheese will keep it happy...you might be able to make a milk shake from warm milk with it though :)
"I can't say I approve of this behavior...but it might have a positive effect, as well."
I can!
Haven't seen any other posts relating to this, I bet no one else thought of it.
I saw it at 12:05am. The downloadable version is probably very crappy quality, especially the sound. See it in theaters - simply amazing! You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
You are wrong. They are both free of charge. If you don't want ads, then Opera is not free of charge but then again you weren't being very specific.
Bah, it scrambles itself. I can undo and redo a rubiks cube if I remember how I scrambled it and I'm damn sure a computer can too.
"but its okay for Apple to do it..."
No, NeXT did it, and Apple was looking to buy either NeXT or BeOS to base OS X on. They bought NeXT which was based on BSD.
Also, anyone notice how Apple's two choices had their first third and fourth letters capital but not the second?
At the risk of losing karma, what an obvious statement!! Pi is a mathematical number used to calculate certain things such as circumference OF COURSE ITS NOT RANDOM, if it was then we wouldn't be using it for so many important functions
"but you'd better hope I don't get to the Twinkies aisle before you."
:)
To bad for you...I work at a convenience store and already have the twinkies i want
"We've been using GCC 4 internally since the winter of 2003."
GCC 4 was just finished you jackass. Apple (not you, its very easy to tell you are just some idiot wanting karma) therefore could not have been using it internally since 2003.
Grow up, get a job, then die a <dare I say> peaceful </dare>death.
I think everyone mistook this. They are not saying video drivers mean nothing, they are just saying that more focus should be payed to the core parts of the kernel. They are saying that more focus needs to be on stabillity and speed, not that no one should develop drivers for video, sound, etc.
If linux becomes a kernel with a bunch of media/video added, and less attention to the main parts, it will suck. Without the media/video, it will suck. We need both parts.
Using energy creates heat. If they use less energy there is less heat. I think they should ignore the direct problem and fix the indirect problem.
believes the imperfections are often too small for humans to even notice
1+1=5 But I didn't see any problems on the chip!
"Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained..."
Why in the hell would you waste your time finding and possibly paying someone for such common sense? Maybe you have it set to play based on ratings which can be set in iTunes, dunno, but seriously use your head.
Woops, forgot to post my source for the code:c tions/rand.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/fun
"I wonder if you can run a regular random number generator on your PC and get the same results?"
/* RAND_MAX assumed to be 32767. */
The typical random number generator on a computer takes a number (for example the current tick on the clock) and messes around with it mathematically to generate a "random" number. It then uses that as the next seed. So once you set your initial seed, everything is entirely reproducable.
Here is a typical implimentation of a "random" number generator on the computer:
static unsigned long next = 1;
int myrand(void)
{
next = next * 1103515245 + 12345;
return((unsigned)(next/65536) % 32768);
}
void mysrand(unsigned seed)
{
next = seed;
}
Not very random is it?
"Without a connection to the internet, what good will this actually bring?"
When I had my first computer, I didn't have the internet or use a BBS (though the internet was around). I wasn't ripping off companies for software and music, I actually went out and bought software, something many people seem to have forgotten stores carry. I still played games, wrote papers, etc. Computers have a purpose even when there is no internet.
Good point I didn't think about that. The second part still applies though.
Real computers will become the hobbyist's toy
For the people who really want to use good programs (such as the BSDs or linux and the applications run on them), if an ISP won't let us connect we just need to take a TC and set it up as a router and connect our real computer to it. TC won't stop anyone who actually cares not to use it IMHO.
Plus the idea that it will only run programs allowed to be run will kill off developers and only leave coorporations willing to spend the extra money to get a license. It will once again fail.
The RedHat 8 emulation has been around for a long time in FreeBSD, it has just been updated. I'm not positive why its only version 8, but I'm guessing its because most applications that will work on today's distibutions probably work on RedHat 8 (with minor updates such as glibc).
Look no further: Microsoft Linux
I've been here for about two years, the first time I actually saw this joke was when it said In Soviet Russia car drives you, which is a line from Family Guy. I just assumed someone thought it was funny and kept going with it
Where does this crap come from? Appple marketing?
You clearly haven't used OS X
Open standards are being embraced just about everywhere you turn in OS X
Like DRM in Ipod?
Like quicktime codecs?
Does the phrase "just about" mean anything to you? We have Darwin (the kernel plus more), the compiler used in XCode is gcc, it includes tons of examples, and some of them are even programs included with OS X. Many developers for OS X open source. Just because Apple hasn't open sourced everything, such as the parts of OS X like Quartz, Aqua, etc that help bring in a profit so it can't be copied exactly, means they care about money which every company does.
The numbers of Macs involved in secure and classified work in the Federal government have been exploding
Exploding computers?
Don't be a smart ass